ilovelemmy12@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoGood News! Public tracking data used by defense contractors from space-track.org now officially shows Elon has lost over 5% of his fleet in 2 months. He can no longer keep up with launches.tiblur.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down130
arrow-up1-6arrow-down1external-linkGood News! Public tracking data used by defense contractors from space-track.org now officially shows Elon has lost over 5% of his fleet in 2 months. He can no longer keep up with launches.tiblur.comilovelemmy12@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareecho64@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down4·1 year agoIt depends on if you are okay with the night sky being flooded with space junk that makes doing astronomy harder or not
minus-squareJtee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·1 year agoOr if you like hearing news about Muskrat eating shit
minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year agoWell, good news. Starlink satellites have been steadily improving over time in that regard.
minus-squareNeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s a rule for life: Always start with doing the very worst shit that is thinkable at all. Then improve gradually, but make sure that you talk about it every time. Every little bit of improvement is good news. From the very worst shit to second worst shit… From the second worst shit to third worst shit… From the third worst shit … From the fourth worst…
minus-squareNighed@sffa.communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s only junk if they are useless, which the functional satellites are definitely not. I think the dead ones come down pretty quick, can’t remember what the exact timing is from their full orbit though. (It’s weeks from their launch orbit)
It depends on if you are okay with the night sky being flooded with space junk that makes doing astronomy harder or not
Or if you like hearing news about Muskrat eating shit
Well, good news. Starlink satellites have been steadily improving over time in that regard.
That’s a rule for life: Always start with doing the very worst shit that is thinkable at all.
Then improve gradually, but make sure that you talk about it every time. Every little bit of improvement is good news.
From the very worst shit to second worst shit…
From the second worst shit to third worst shit…
From the third worst shit …
From the fourth worst…
It’s only junk if they are useless, which the functional satellites are definitely not.
I think the dead ones come down pretty quick, can’t remember what the exact timing is from their full orbit though. (It’s weeks from their launch orbit)